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Hugh Richards

3 years

The new improving writing in History 'working wall' is finally up. Still need to sort out bits of alignment etc and I am sure panels will be taken out, updated and slotted back in as we start to build resources around the working wall. BUT it's ready to go! Link in thread...

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

3 years

Here is a DRAFT lesson on Ukraine. Please feel free to RT/download/adapt. Sharing it now in case others are planning one tomrrow, it might save time if it can be adapted? Mix of slides and videos. I will stop and ask what Qs they have regularly. Link below.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Hello. I’m a middle leader. I try to work efficiently, and pragmatically. I don’t have enough time to do my job as well as I could do. Or as well as I want to. This does get to me. Just in case you thought it was just you. (I’m hoping it’s not just me.)

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Hugh Richards

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One of my fave teacher hacks - photograph an extract from a book using phone, load onto Google drive. Click 'Open in Google docs' Boom. Editable extract.

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Hugh Richards

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💡🧵 Workflow vs Workload: an idea for planning the school* calendar. 1. RAG-rate weeks across next year by teacher** workload. Some measure of work on top of ‘normal teaching.’ *This could also be usefully done by HoDs **Ideally differently for HODs/Pastoral lead/teachers

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Flashback to the last week of last term, where I wrote *very* impressed feedback on about 5 students books before I realised they were all suspiciously similar, and I was in fact making my own model paragraph.

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

🧵I’ve had a couple people ask about this, so here are some things that might help HoDs right now: 1. Anticipate some pandemic-related disruption and remember you’re just one person. The pressures and stresses this term might bring aren’t your fault, or yours to fix alone.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

This one is mainly aimed at male colleagues… *We* need to lead the fight back against this Andrew T*te crap. The boys in our schools must see a relentlessly, energetic, robust & convincing repudiation of misogyny. It needs to come clearly from male voices imo. So: 1/

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Insight from Y10 today. John Snow basically did track and trace. So we should have nailed it by now...

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Well, I’ve committed to this one!

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Has anyone had pupil misbehaviour that they were secretly impressed by? At my last school, a Y8 arrived with a full, sealed, 2L bottle of Pepsi Max. Me: “Don’t let me see that again…” He binned the empty bottle as he left. Eye contact. I hadn’t heard or seen it. Fair play.

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Scene. A 31-year old is 3rd in queue for Clark’s. “Are you here for school shoes?” “Yes” Some time later, attendant returns: “You need to have your child with you before you go in.” Confused teacher: “Erm, the shoes are for me.” *stare* “Adults don’t have to queue.”

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Hugh Richards

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10 months

We have just had our first data entry for Y13. As HoD, I have sat down with 12 students who are clearly not where we or they want them to be. They filled out this in advance of some 1:1 chats with me and Y13 Parents Evening next week. Illuminating...

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

👇🏻 Here is our DRAFT History curric for KS3, Sept 2022-24. Feedback/suggestions very welcome. 🧵= a summary of each year group and a few things I’m thinking as HoD. H/T to top collaborator @eharrison810 🤩 ⚠️ Plenty to do: some units tried + tested, some not planned yet!

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

A few notes on failure as a middle leader. Recently, I have had to deal with a relatively significant failure in my role as subject leader. I can’t say precisely what it was, but it caused a number of problems for my colleagues and I. Here’s a thread of a few reflections.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

*Adore* little notes to teachers from students in mocks. Start of one Y13 essay: “I am truly sorry for what I am about to write!” Anyone else got some good ‘uns?

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

The delivery. The drawings. The denim. Iconic.

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Just added this to the first lessons of term. I quite like it.

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Hugh Richards

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8 months

Is anyone finding increasing workload attached to attendance? Things like: - setting work for school refusers - setting work for students missing lessons but in sch - catch up for students who miss lessons - chasing up all of the above Does your school have a policy on this?

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Hugh Richards

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9 months

Oh so you think you’re a master of Cold Call? The Director of Music at King’s College cordially requests you to lay hold of his brewed beverage.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

The sheer weight of exhaustion, stress, frustration & underfunding. Totally disguised, masked by hundreds of thousands professionals. Every lesson. Every deliberate, cheerful, “Good morning Year 8, let’s get started.” The weight of it across the system. It’s not just you.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

The main role of an SLT lead for T&L should be training and trusting subject leaders to improve the quality of teaching in their departments. If you want a whole school focus, train the SLs in it, and give them time to train their teams in a subject-specific way.

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

We often see “Excellent CPD from X today…” tweets with *no* sense of actual impact. Much rarer is “Three/four/five/more years ago we had some CPD from X and started working on Y. Since then it’s had massive, demonstrable impact because…” Do you have examples of the latter?

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Predictions 1. Most (KS3, Y10/12 at least) not in school until after Feb HT at earliest. 2. Tier 5 national lockdown, matching March 2020. Implemented too late. 3. Exams cancelled. Way too late again.

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Can I enter myself for A-level this year and get an A*? I've been in all the lessons and everything.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

NEW ASSEMBLY (and tie-in poster campaign): this one on misogyny. This one tries to demythologise T*t*, empower the girls and help the boys think more clearly about masculinity. I believe as many boys as possible should hear this sort of messaging- please do share/RT! Link 👇🏻

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Read the assignment instructions. Read them and understand them!

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Questions from HoD interviews - tailored for History but easily adapted. Obviously only a fraction of the possibilities, but hopefully helpful. Note: inclusion is NOT endorsement of these questions - they are a mixed bag...

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

🧵 Helpful time investments for HoDs at this time of year: 1. Make an at-a-glance sheet of which teachers teach which groups, including split classes. 2. Print the timetable for the department: 1 copy for the office wall and 1 for the back of your planner. It's *really* helpful

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Top 4 fictional teachers. Here they are.

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

🚨📢It's here! The Totally Unofficial OCR B GCSE Switcher Pack 📚Full classroom resources for all* commonly taught units 🏰Exemplar planning for a range of Site Studies 👨‍👩‍👧WhatsApp group of current OCR B teachers 💡CPD slides on Site Study unit *1-2 still incoming! More 👇

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Hugh Richards

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5 years

Today's pro tip, especially for @missvichistory . Print multi slides per sheet without massive white borders. Leave it as 'Full page slides' on the main settings. Use 'printer properties' to change number of pages per sheet. Quiz here is 4 per sheet on A3. 2 per sheet gives you A5

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Today was a non-uniform day. A Y10 told me I looked like “a historian off the telly.” I have mixed feelings, not least because they probably had a point.

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Hugh Richards

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5 years

Popular metacognitive revison activity today - Y11 loved just having TIME to review what they know well and what they dont. Also gives clear, chunked focus for revision in form time etc, and gives me a sense of the topics we need to look over as a class. #historyteacher

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I am missing a lesson from each of my three Y13 groups when I'm on a trip this week. Having discarded the idea of all 44 doing a timed essay for me to mark, I decided on this...

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2 years

If Waterstones can get it right, so can every English department in the country! No, it does not need to be taught before Y9…

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Spotted in Waterstones

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

Looking forward to teaching remotely from a ‘ghost school.’ ✅ safe enough without students in (unless CEV) ✅better to teach with school infrastructure/wifi/visualisers/kit ✅ good for home/work boundary ✅ v beneficial to see colleagues ✅ good for Vul/KW kids Anyone agree?

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Hugh Richards

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8 months

One of the absolutely *maddest* things about the current content-heavy GCSE specs in history is that you can be a way for a _single_ lesson and it be a topic of a ~20 mark question. That’s most/all of a grade boundary.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Here’s my 2022 Remembrance Assembly, script and slides. It’s easily editable - any of the stories can be switched out. It combines a range of conflicts involving British and Empire soldiers with stories and reflections about Ukraine. Would love RTs, as I NEED SOME HELP: 👇

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Hugh Richards

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4 months

Q: Why are mini-whiteboards *magic?* A: because it is a whole-class snapshot for you, but a *1:1* experience for the child. Even a quick nod at their board or a "good" with a point makes it a 1:1 interaction. I can't think of any other way to pack so much 1:1 into a lesson?

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

Here is where we are with curriculum planning. Sharing to gain feedback and offer a comparison point for other HoDs playing this game. Not suggesting this is the only way! As ALWAYS lots of compromises and things to change, but limited time means prioritisation. More 👇

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Welcome to History. Look closely… 😄 If you want to adapt this to your curriculum it’s all editable. Instructions and resources 👇🏻

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

2 years

🧵This exam season we must be REALLY supportive of colleagues who haven't done many proper exam seasons. It's not just ECTs. Colleagues in their 5th year have only done ONE full exam season. Look out for them, maybe share the below with them. Read on if you are one! 1/

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Tis the season. Here's two ideas for History Open Evenings. Here are the posters for each. Resources and download links in the thread below. My main OE advice is to TALK to people - especially the Y6 students- about your curric. Get excited. Engage, don't wait for them to.

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Hugh Richards

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5 years

So... at home this week and Mum digs out this, which has emerged from my late Grandmother’s possessions. It is a scrap book of her visit to Germany in the summer of 1939. She was 8 at the time. This might be of interest to the good folk of the @historybookgrp ...

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

Tell me it’s the start of term without etc etc

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

🧵 I listened to some great history podcasts over the summer. The subject knowledge was helpful, sure- but I was surprised by how much pedagogy I picked up. Here’s a short thread of what I learned abt history teaching/storytelling, that I am now using more in the classroom:

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

So, after some scheming with @richkbristol I am starting to write a series of 10 'short story sections' to slot into Nazi Germany GCSE courses. Here is *draft 1* of Marinus van der Lubbe - all feedback welcome! Still needs a good edit... Watch the space - Others to follow!

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Dating tip: your family tree shouldn't be a circle.

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Year 13 Revision is going well. "Somebody tell me - who was Sir Thomas More?" "Wasn't he the bloke who walked around his garden during Covid?" Work still to do there then.

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Here is one of my favourite little interlinking stories that sits within our curriculum. It's quite well known but here is how I teach the story of the MV Monte Rosa.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Do Nows - some ideas If you have teachers that move rooms a fair bit or you want to roll out 'do nows' or 'bell work' without having to plan them all, print these four sheets of paper. Then you can: a) walk into room b) tap the sign c) set up your lesson resource below 👇

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

#Historyteacher people. Can we all please just agree that from now on we never just use the word 'source' but replace it with 'source of evidence?' Try it - I find it so helpful. The focus changes to what useful evidence can be lifted. Just asking...

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2 years

Here's the next Nazi Germany story for GCSE. This time we join Ernst Röhm for just ten minutes. In Stadelheim Prison. Pic 3 is pedagogy: 10 min read, 5 min chat. ICYMI, the van der Lubbe one is below, along with links to the (editable) downloads. Just 8 to go! @richkbristol

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2 years

12. In summary: - Middle leaders dealing with a problem need support from both sides. - Not just for their own well-being, but to improve their response. - Departmental & school culture are useful shock-proofers here. - People are mostly lovely at really pressured moments.

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Designed on PPT and freely downloadable and editable. Available here:

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Hugh Richards

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1 year

One of the great #historyteacher websites Endlessly useful! Here is the crown gain from land sales alone during the Dissolution...

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Hugh Richards

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4 months

Gained Time: n. 1. A period of time in the summer term when everyone and their cat add jobs to teacher to do lists at an unbelievable rate. 2. A myth, or fairytale

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Hugh Richards

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6 years

The more distinctive the moustache the more the person is to blame for WW2. Tell me I’m wrong.

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Hugh Richards

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11 months

Short 🧵 Just wanted to say I’m having a bit of a ‘flat phase…’ at present- not looking for any kind of sympathy - but just in case it might reassure earlier career teachers or anyone else in feeling a bit flat professionally at the moment. Basically what I mean is…

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

One for migration and empire units…

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Under Brondesbury bridge

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New FAVE metacognition/paragraph planning approach: 1. Write the point/claim sentence in full, embracing complexity where possible. 2. Label *precise parts* of that point/claim with the evidence that supports them. 3. Expand as an essay plan if needed.

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4 months

Top gift from Y13…

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Hugh Richards

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5 years

Enquiry Questions for History! Finally I have this doc sorted, thanks so much to everyone who contributed, I hope it is useful for #historyteachers seeking some curriculum inspiration as they develop things!

Ringing the changes: the power of enquiry questions that both chime and resonate

Enquiry questions – the back story! Editors’ note: Thanks to Hugh Richards for organising all of us and co-ordinating this post. His lovely tables had to be posted as screen-shots. The Word D…

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3 years

Thread - concepts and curriculum planning. Here (editable version if it helps you in the thread below) is a list of some 'first-order' or 'substantive' concepts which appear in our KS4-5 curric. Part of the role of the KS3 curric is to ensure ALL our learners can access... 1/6

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Hugh Richards

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3 years

Inspired by @Counsell_C & others (Hello @PaulaLoboWorth and @michaeldoron ) I have done the following: 1. Stopped creating ‘info sheets.’ 2. Started writing *stories* instead. Work out the key learning. Find the right story. Find a character to hang it on. So. much. fun.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

HoD 🧵: this term is the ‘use it or lose it’ stage of budgeting. Each year, after stocking up on kit, I look at the longer term investments for the department. The top of my list is always- always- textbooks. So here is a short thread of why, which and how of textbook buying.

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Hugh Richards

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2 years

Occasionally, a lesson works almost perfectly from the first teaching of it. This one, wrapping up the 6-lesson enquiry (pic 1) was one. Thanks to my Y8s of course, who got right into it! @mrwbw thank you so much. An inspiration. Also a sprinkling of @missdcox in pic 4!

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Hugh Richards

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4 years

'GIVE IT A NAME' - a useful little idea to help students remember feedback. A short thread, with pictures! The idea: give the error a name and, ideally, a visual metaphor. The effect: they remember it, identify it accurately in their work and even remember it next time! 1/

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Want to increase uptake? Start GCSE recruitment in Sept Year 7. BUT: don’t talk about GCSE or practice GCSE questions in KS3. Just let the subject breathe and get them as obsessed as you can! This will involve a whole department, and so, as ever, it’s a curriculum thing.

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3 months

This is awesome - 1918 especially

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Watch World War I Every Day On The Western Front In 60 Seconds

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Dealing with isolating students: a "Catch-up/Keep-up sheet" Electronic version of the textbook, plus simple instructions. Fave bit is the number of pages to leave free if they need to go back and catch up... Hopefully fairly self-led, with prompts from us.

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5 years

Lots of people devising Enquiry Questions ATM - really good ones are tricky, but #historyteacher folk have bags of inspiration. Please reply with old favourites or screenshots of current ones & I will collate them into topics etc. RETWEET and broaden the net! #sharingiscaring

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This year we’re looking with fresh eyes at whole GCSE units. Some units needed *methodical* incorporation of: ➡️ CPD since 2016 ➡️ New pedagogy ➡️ better understanding of spec/assessment after years of teaching it. Here’s how, via @histassoc

Curricular implementation at Key Stage 4: Anatomy of a GCSE History Unit.

Thanks to Hugh Richards, Head of History at Huntington School and course leader of the HA’s Subject Leader Development Programme, for this blogpost. In it Hugh walks us through the process of…

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1 year

Does *anyone* out there have another week to go?!

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This is a joyful end to a very tough week! Thank you @histassoc . Really it’s a recognition of the SLDP I think - so shared credit and thanks to @sharon_anin (herself a new Fellow! 🥳) @EG_Carr @DavidJHibbert @yorkclio & @CatPriggs . Top team.

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Congratulations to Hugh Richards who is now an HA Fellow @HughJRichards

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Scholarship schmolarship.* This book is just entirely delightful and a powerful teaching tool. #dualcoding

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7 years

Tentatively pinned up... What do the best historians do? Feedback and ideas welcome! All on one PPT if you want an e-copy to pick apart

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"Well, Year 11, its not so much what grade you get in each paper. You get grade boundaries on all of your scores put together. So what we're trying to do really is build up a really big pile of marks." *Switches slide*

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Love these @1972SHP books- doing dual coding and world building before it was cool. Hunt them out and treasure them! They cover a huge range of topics.

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3 years

Tis the season, so here’s LBJ marking his mocks. (H/T @eharrison810 )

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Short thread: make the most of Twitter to help you with a difficult term. I have found the #Historyteacher corner of twitter to be utterly FAB. For *years* all I did was ‘look n’ like’ and didn’t engage. Some thoughts on how engaging more could help you this term: #DistHist

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I don’t ‘do’ negative tweets, BUT: In recent months I’ve been told by several #historyteacher women about times various -some v high profile- men of our usually happy tribe have behaved appallingly. You know who you are. It’s not good enough. Do better. 1/

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Are you an aspiring, newly-appointed or experienced History Subject Leader? After a successful Pilot, and before the full start with the Autumn Term 2021 programme, there is a chance to book onto a cohort running JUNE-SEPT 2021. Email events @history .org.uk to register interest.

Hugh Richards

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NEW: @histassoc Subject Leader Development Porgramme! Practical and pragmatic advice for aspiring, new and experienced Subject Leaders of History. Light-touch assessment process to secure HA accreditation. Details and signup link in this HA Tweet!

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New WW1 unit - which I will share fully soon - has this new lesson on survivors - I'm teaching it twice today and so excited about it...

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Here (very last minute) is what I am saying for our remembrance assemblies this week. It would need a bit of tweaking here and there to your school, but it's an editable PPT and text document. Feel free to RT/share as desired. We will remember them.

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How to be productive; 1. Agree with spouse that chores need doing. 2. Go upstairs to do chores. 3. Mess around on phone as long as you dare. 4. Do chores at top speed when footsteps are heard on stairs. 5. Try to look both busy and innocent.

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Student over a word count? Tip: search for full stops. It will highlight them all. The gaps between them show you long and short sentences and signpost where things are getting wordy and are ripe for pruning. #historyteacher

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September me is going to be pretty pissed off with July me. Every year!

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Yikes. What a term that was. Well, Merry Christmas everyone.

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Errors ALL my own - finding it hard to make sense of for a ~60 min format. This is my own work - views and assumptions my own. Lesson here:

UKRAINE 27.2.22.pptx

Knowledge build for teachers Long history in brief bullet points: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497215854546665489.html Long history in one hour podcast: https://twitter.com/TheRestHistory/st...

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Would love to #historyteacher thoughts. These are basic starting points for KS3, to introduce core types of writing in History: 🖋️Summary/narrative 🖋️Explanation 🖋️Judgement 🖋️Source Analysis 🖋️Interpretation Analysis Each instructions and mark scheme for each. Summary:

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History teachers- if you haven’t read this by @daisychristo , or you’ve trained since it was written, it’s sooo worth it. It’s short, readable and has had a huge impact on many areas of my practice: teaching writing, assessing history, GCSE exam skills etc etc etc Have a go!

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@socpsyteach @HecticTeacher @PsyMissChampion @Liseateaches @allsociology Read Making Good Progress by @daisychristo - deliberately practising elements of the essay rather than writing out has had lots of impact for my students: - just deconstruct a few Qs - just make a plan - just write opening sentences for each para - just write one para...

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

2 years

This year I have a timetable that includes (on week A) teaching every lesson from Mon 1 to Thurs 3. I’m interested in tips for not just ‘surviving’ but actually keeping a consistent quality of teaching across 18 lessons on the bounce. A 🧵 of what I have learned so far…

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

5 years

New retrieval practice: Y11 now need questions with *minimal prompts* (because the exam Qs don't signpost the knolwedge needed, and the process of selecting knowledge is very important in history) Hat tip to @KKNTeachLearn who's 'name 5' grid this is based on.

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

3 years

Used this with Y8 today and it was BLOODY BRILLIANT. Whole first lesson one this one section of text. Thanks so much @jlhough91_lee for sharing it and @katypotts82 for nicking it for us. ❤️❤️❤️ #historyteacher Twitter

John Hough

@jlhough91_lee

3 years

So much better than the historians as detectives lesson I taught in Y7 years ago. This would be a brilliant couple of paragraphs to read in KS3, introducing History as a disciplinary subject in secondary. Also links well to decolonising the curriculum. Brilliant @FernRiddell 💪

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

5 years

Are you a fan of dual coding? Or perhaps a fan of Alphonse the Camel? I’m sure I’m not the first to do something like this, but my lot enjoyed The Camelometer as a way to organise what they started working on before half term! @ArthurJChapman it’s still a beaut.

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

2 years

I bloody love a fold out.

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

7 months

A new unit planned, and a few different ways I am using stories and narratives in my teaching. 🧵 EQ: What did Henry VII do to make Henry VIII so powerful? Idea: build on earlier units about monarchy, moving here from medieval to early modern state. So, to the stories... 1/

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Hugh Richards

@HughJRichards

1 year

1. They are NEVER as good or bad as they first appear. Look for strengths as much as areas to work on. Don’t lose sight of the good stuff. 2. Remember, *good or bad,* they are the students results. Teachers have only limited agency.

Shabnam Ahmed

@Shabnamagram

1 year

So… tomorrow is my first real ‘results day’ as a HOD. I feel sick to my stomach about them :( Any advice? What should I be doing? @Team_English1

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